Blood Runs Backward

[sg1-bad-ro-es-rewn-02-18] [LS.v3.3.2026.0718R] [Verse 1] You wore my name like it was yours, spoke like you raised it up yourself. I believed it, believed you, when the air cracked with promises and you swore you'd stay electric. Your shadow's spit dried on my hands, too late to see you were selling the ending. [Chorus] Blood runs backward when you try to scrub me out. Every word I gave you's burned into the walls. I'm the thread you frayed, the tether you lost— you won't erase this. You won't erase me. [Verse 2] I lie awake replaying it exact: the way you clipped your voice at the edges of the truth and dropped the knife before I saw it. I'm choking on the clear signs I twisted into stars like a fool. Your laugh made your face look pure again, but there were seconds in the teeth of that smile, and I can't stop finding them now. [Chorus] Blood runs backward when you try to scrub me out. Every word I gave you's burned into the walls. I'm the thread you frayed, the tether you lost— you won't erase this. You won't erase me. [Bridge] And maybe, God, maybe I still want your voice, but tell it with enough truth to cut this time. Maybe I don't trust my own eyes— you made everything look like fire when it was smoke, and everybody waved it away. [Final Chorus] Blood runs backward when you try to scrub me out. Every word I gave you's burned into the walls. I'm the thread you frayed, the tether you lost— you won't erase this. Blood runs backward; I stayed when no one saw. Here I am in the ruin, still harder to erase. You won't erase me. [end]